Herwig Schopper : : Scientist and Diplomat in a Changing World.
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Place / Publishing House: | Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2024. ©2024. |
Year of Publication: | 2024 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Springer Biographies Series
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Foreword
- Authors' Note
- Notes from James Gillies
- Notes from Herwig Schopper
- Contents
- 1 Early Years and Private Life
- Seismic Political Changes
- In His Own Words
- The Wonders of Physics
- Private Life
- 2 The War Years
- Basic Military Training
- The Eastern Front
- The End of the War
- In His Own Words: A Visit to Sanssouci
- References
- 3 Studies in Hamburg 1945-1954
- A Diploma in Optics
- Restrictions on Nuclear Research in Germany Relax
- Formative Years
- In His Own Words: Family Matters
- Reference
- 4 A University Professor, and Establishing New Institutes
- The Years at Erlangen
- Measuring the Circular Polarisation of Gamma Rays
- The First Spin-Polarised Proton Beam Source
- Meeting Other Scientists
- Moving to Mainz and the Foundation of MAMI
- The Foundation of CERN and DESY Leads to Difficult Decisions
- High-Energy Accerarators at Karlsruhe?
- A Second CERN Laboratory and the SPS
- Successes in Science
- Accelerator Technology and Superconducting Cavities
- In His Own Words: Who Cares About Neutrons? The Hadron Calorimeter
- Reference
- 5 The Travelling Years - Stockholm, Cambridge and Cornell
- The Visible Spectrum and Beyond
- A Sojourn in Stockholm with Lise Meitner
- On to Cambridge
- The Principle of Symmetry Invariance
- An Early Experiment on Mirror Reflection Invariance
- A Year at Cornell
- In His Own Words: Learning About the English Way
- Reference
- 6 To DESY via CERN
- A Tale of Two Machines
- An Offer Too Good to Refuse-Back to Hamburg
- DORIS: A Collider, not a Girl
- The Discovery of Charm
- Another Broken Symmetry-CP
- DORIS's Last Particle Physics Hurrah!
- From DORIS to PETRA
- Synchrotron Radiation-A Valuable Spin-Off
- The Electron Collider Race to 20 GeV
- Physics at PETRA and the Discovery of the Gluon
- A New Lease of Life for PETRA.
- HERA-A Legacy
- In His Own Words
- The Chinese at DESY
- Acknowledgements
- References for Gluon Discovery
- 7 Director-General of CERN
- Electing the New Director-General and Reunifying the Lab
- The LEP Proposal
- A New Style for CERN
- A Nobel Discovery
- Spain Re-joins CERN: An Excursion in a Wheelchair
- Portugal: Much Work in a Beautiful Country
- Water at the End of the Tunnel
- Building the Machine
- The Decisions Were Made at the Bar
- An Eye on the Future: Superconducting Cavities and Magnets
- CERN Under the Microscope: The Kendrew and Abragam Committees
- And the Answer is Three: The First Results from LEP
- The Future of CERN
- In His Own Words: Encounters with Remarkable People
- A Prime Ministerial Visit
- An Interesting Collaboration
- Reference
- 8 From Science to Science Diplomacy
- ROSTE-Getting to Know Venice
- The UNESCO International Basic Sciences Programme
- The Nobel Prize-Winner and the President
- Excursions into Nuclear Fusion
- A Cuban Interlude
- IUPAP Looks into the Role of Women in Physics
- Forum Engelberg
- The Foundation of the Cyprus Institute
- In His Own Words: Exploring Cuba
- References
- 9 Travels to the Far East
- China
- The Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP)
- A Friendship Across Cultures
- Bismuth Germanium Oxide for the L3 Experiment at CERN
- A Memorial to Chien-Shiung Wu
- Taiwan ROC
- Japan
- The Subcontinent: Pakistan
- India
- Vietnam
- In His Own Words: Memories from a Big Country
- Reference
- 10 The Large Machines: LEP, the LHC and Beyond
- A Nail-Biting Finish
- LEP's Contribution to Physics
- Theory and Experiment
- In His Own Words: Incredible Precision and a Lasting Legacy
- References
- 11 Science for Peace with SESAME and SEEIIST
- The New Laboratory Takes Seed
- UNESCO Takes the Lead
- Securing BESSY.
- The Formal Foundation of SESAME
- Building the Laboratory
- Towards the Third Generation
- The Origins of SEEIIST
- Two Concrete Studies
- Phase 1 of SEEIIST
- The Swiss Initiative
- In His Own Words: Finding a Home for SESAME
- References
- 12 In His Own Words: Epilogue and Reflexions
- Science at the Centre of My Life
- The Importance of Fundamental Science and Technology in a Changing World
- Scientific Careers in Changing Times
- Public Understanding of Science
- Sensationalism and Scientific Revolutions
- Science, Politics and the Role of Forecasts
- Is There a Universal Truth?
- Is Technical and Social Progress Too Quick for the Human Mind?
- What Are the Priorities in Politics?
- A World in Transition
- References
- Some Important Publications by Herwig Schopper
- Index.